page-turner
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of page-turner
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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It is newly arrived in paperback, and a perfect summer page-turner.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
She might profitably have removed the scaffolding of the research, avoided extraneous detail and produced more of a page-turner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
However, both he and Fiennes are thrown by the reaction some audiences have had to the movie, celebrating “Conclave” as an addictive, eminently meme-able page-turner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
The Guardian's Anthony Cummins said the book was "truly wonderful – a tender, funny page-turner about the derangements of grief, and Rooney’s richest treatment yet of messy romantic entanglements".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2024
Tim O’Reilly Publisher and Founder, O’Reilly and Associates Doctorow has created a rich and exciting vision of the future, and then wrote a page-turner of a story in it.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Doctorow, Cory
Emily was followed by a slew of page-turners in similar, breathy vein: Bella, Harriet, Imogen and Prudence.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
Her true genre is uplifting, forward-thinking, character-driven science fiction: cozy page-turners attuned to diplomacy, tea drinking, alien minds and the urgent power of self-definition.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
Ackerman juggles literary fiction with speculative detours and military page-turners like “2034,” which imagines a future conflict with China.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
By creating television series, movies, podcasts, digital content and page-turners, the Obamas and Clintons are reaching larger, younger and more diverse audiences than those for White House memoirs.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2021
I love page-turners, especially when they are as unusual as this novel.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Doctorow, Cory
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